Jay Benedict

Watco Supply Chain assists other Watco service divisions

June 27, 2019

Commodity: Crane Customer: Watco Terminal & Ports Services Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Houston, Texas One of Watco’s newest offices is in Joplin, Missouri, and houses a new branch of Watco Su...

Guntersville Terminal Team gives advice on keeping cool this summer

Jay Benedict

June 3, 2019

Safety First

This week’s Summer Spike focus is on hydration, wellness, and heat-related illness. These are certainly things we think about at work, and I hope we also thought about those things last weekend during the holi...

WSOR tours flood recovery area with state, local officials

Jay Benedict

November 9, 2018

Extra!

On a mild fall day in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR) hosted a group of state and local government officials to tour the flood-ravaged area that was affected by the string of severe stor...

PCC-Condon Team’s speedy rebound after trestle fires

Tracie VanBecelaere

August 9, 2018

Extra!

While fires are raging through the state of California, Watco Team Members in Oregon had their own fire to deal with. Luckily, it was controlled within six hours, but not before it destroyed two trestles and a ...

Mechanical Supervisor

Jay Benedict

May 8, 2018

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Richmond, VA Apply here A Supervisor is responsible for directly overseeing a group of typically 2-3 team members in a specific department or work area (i.e. repair, paint, cleaning, etc.). The Superv...

Watco helps CBH Group transport record grain train in Western Austrailia

Jay Benedict

April 27, 2018

Moves

Just over a week ago, Watco Western Australia and our Customer and partner, CBH Group, broke the record for the longest and largest grain train ever operated on the continent. The 1.8 kilometer, or 1.1 mile,...

Team Members and teamwork keys to strong safety culture

Jay Benedict

April 19, 2018

Safety First

You may have recently seen that the Mississippi Southern Railroad (MSR) hit an impressive safety milestone: 13 years without an injury. To celebrate this accomplishment, the Team grilled out at the Vicksburg So...

Watco adds Cincinnati, OH, Tropicana facility to switching portfolio

Tracie VanBecelaere

April 16, 2018

Milestones

Back in 1995, Watco’s Charlie Sigley was excited to help bring on a new mechanical Customer. That Customer was Tropicana, and he never imagined that 22 years later that relationship would lead to Watco providin...

Trainmaster

Jay Benedict

March 27, 2018

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Horicon, Wi Apply Here Description Supervises and coordinates activities of train crew engaged in switching railroad cars within yard of railroad, industrial plant, or similar location to...

Watco goes to Washington

Jay Benedict

March 23, 2018

Extra!

You may have seen that about two weeks ago several Watco Team Members and one of our Customers joined nearly 700 other rail industry representatives and descended on Capitol Hill. What may have been unclear ...

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